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thank you for listening to us. i appreciate it. >> jean rice -- explain the vote in house committee. steve scalisse it was there. maybe he will explain. >> in the commerce committee, we have many amendments. i co-sponsored a number of them. i was a co-sponsor of the amendment that would have forced a member of, -- congress to join the plan. i think it is a bed bill but i think that put your money where your mouth is. they also voted against that. we had an amendment on abortion. there was one bill to amend abortion in the bill. the national right to life -- there is a lot of dispute whether abortion is in the bill. do not believe any politician in washington. the national right to life says they expressed their opposition to h.r. 3200. this bill would predictably result in the greatest expansion of abortion since roe vs. wade. because of the amendment in the bill, we turned around and we brought up an amendment to ban abortion in the bel predr we passed it on a very close vote for it unfortunately, they turn aroun
thank you for listening to us. i appreciate it. >> jean rice -- explain the vote in house committee. steve scalisse it was there. maybe he will explain. >> in the commerce committee, we have many amendments. i co-sponsored a number of them. i was a co-sponsor of the amendment that would have forced a member of, -- congress to join the plan. i think it is a bed bill but i think that put your money where your mouth is. they also voted against that. we had an amendment on abortion....
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it was never used on the individual or that they brought in a weapon, never used on the individual. the judgment was made then tha there wasn't anything there that was improper or illegal with respect to -- >> do you think what they did, now that you've heard about it, do you think what they did was wrong? >> chris, my sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced ierrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of american lives, in preventing further attacks against the united states, in giving us the intelligence we needed to find al qaeda, to find their camps, to find out how they were being financed. those interrogations were involved in the arrest of nearly all of the al qaeda members that we were able to bring to justice. i think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years we had no further mass casualty attacks against the united states. it was good policy. it was properly carried out. it worked very, very well. >> so even these cases where they went beyond the specifi legal authorization, you're okay with it. >> i am. >> one specifi
it was never used on the individual or that they brought in a weapon, never used on the individual. the judgment was made then tha there wasn't anything there that was improper or illegal with respect to -- >> do you think what they did, now that you've heard about it, do you think what they did was wrong? >> chris, my sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced ierrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of american lives, in preventing further attacks...
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i want -- brings to us exactly what i wanted to ask you, bill sammon. the story in the "washington post," for folks who didn't get a chance to read it is khalid sheikh mohammed who was waterboarded 183 times, then, became a kind of professor, he engaged in what were called terrorist tutorials and using a chalk board, to explain to u.s. intelligence officers exactly the structure of al qaeda, how it worked, and what they were planning, and the cia inspectors report does not come to a conclusion about whether or not it was the waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques, that changed how they -- khalid sheikh mohammed's mind and vice president cheney left no doubt that is exactly what changed his mind. >> at some point common sense enters into this and before he was water boarded he was very resistant and after he was waterboarded he is singing like a canary and giving tutorials and became a human rolodex of information about al qaeda. and i think the really crucial thing here, and i think what cheney was essentially saying is that president
i want -- brings to us exactly what i wanted to ask you, bill sammon. the story in the "washington post," for folks who didn't get a chance to read it is khalid sheikh mohammed who was waterboarded 183 times, then, became a kind of professor, he engaged in what were called terrorist tutorials and using a chalk board, to explain to u.s. intelligence officers exactly the structure of al qaeda, how it worked, and what they were planning, and the cia inspectors report does not come to a...
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us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. now, i will say again the prayers from the act of commendation for they are fitting at this moment as well. before we go our separate ways, let us take leave of our brother ted. let us express our affection for him. one day, we shall joyfully greet him again. into your hands, father of mercy, we commend our brother ted in the sure and certain hope that, together with all who have died in christ, he will rise with him on the last day. we give you thanks for the blessings which you placed upon him in this life. they are signs to us of your goodness and their fellowship with our thanks in christ. merciful lord, turn to us and listen to our prayers. open the gates of heaven to your servant, and help us who remain to comfort one another with assurances of faith until we meet in christ and are with you and with our brother teddy forever. we ask this through christ our lord. >> amen. >> let us now raise our heads and pray for god's blessing. you are accepted to the presence of the humble. he
us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. now, i will say again the prayers from the act of commendation for they are fitting at this moment as well. before we go our separate ways, let us take leave of our brother ted. let us express our affection for him. one day, we shall joyfully greet him again. into your hands, father of mercy, we commend our brother ted in the sure and certain hope that, together with all who have died in christ, he will rise with him on the last day....